Hardbound book with black and white illustrations, diagrams and photographs describing the scientific principles of nursing and patient care; includes an appendix at back of book on common abbreviations and weights and measures; a colour illustration of two nurses is stamped on front and back cover…
Hardbound book with black and white illustrations, diagrams and photographs describing the scientific principles of nursing and patient care; includes an appendix at back of book on common abbreviations and weights and measures; a colour illustration of two nurses is stamped on front and back cover with a colour illustration of a nurse stamped on spine; title of book and authors' names stamped in black and blue on front cover and spine; 448 pages.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Belonged to donor; graduate of Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Science Class of 1966.
Handwritten inscription on front endpaper: "Carolyn I. Vanhorne // Kingston General Hospital '65"; printed on frontispiece:" FOURTH EDITION // Scientific principles in // nursing // M. ESTHER McCLAIN, R.N., B.S., B.A., M.S. // Health Director, Providence Hospital School of Nursing, // Detriot, Mich.; formerly Instructor in Nursing Arts, // Providence Hospital School of Nursing, Detroit, Mich. // Shirley Hawke Gragg, R.N., B.S.N. // Instructor in Fundamentals of Nursing and Pharmacology, // Missouri Baptist Hospital School of Nursing, St. Louis, Mo.; // formerly Coordinator in Fundamentals of Nursing, Barnes // Hospital School of Nursing, St. Louis, Mo.; formerly Director of Education, East Tennessee Baptist Hospital, Knoxville, Tenn.; formerly Instructor in Nursing Arts, St. Luke's Hospital, // St. Louis, Mo. // Illustrated // St. Louis 1962 The C.V. Mosby Company"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
24.07 cm
Width
17.03 cm
Depth
2.5 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 24.07 cm X Width 17.03 cm X Depth 2.5 cm
Condition Remarks
Minor surface marks on front and back cover; owner's name handwritten in ink on front endpaper; pages in good condition with last page creased
Copy Type
original
Reference Types
Book
Website
Reference Comments
"United States Armed Forces Medical Journal," U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952, page 1113, https://books.google.ca/books?id=u3tHeKicERQC&dq=M.+Esther+McClain,+R.N.&source=gbs_navlinks_s
"Mosby Company History," Elsevier, accessed August 21, 2020, http://www1.us.elsevierhealth.com/HHS/Help/historyMosby.html
Research Facts
M. Esther McClain also wrote "Simplified Arithmetic for Nurses," and was Instructor in Nursing Arts at Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Detroit, Michigan.
The C. V. Mosby Company was incorporated in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906, and published its first book in the field of nursing in 1917.